Angelsey Easter weekend

Sunday 12th April 2009

A long one to finish

After an evening of chat and food inside the Angelsey outdoors bistro lounge! (sounds posh doesn't it?), we had a good nights sleep and awoke bright and early for breakfast and to get packed up.

We were to do the days paddle and leave for home in the evening.

The plan today was to drive down to Rhoscolyn and set off from Borthwen bay, dad and myself needing to get away at the end of the day, took our boats and kit down early, and I took the van back to the finish and hitched a lift.

The beach and bay was a picture perfect setting, and was an enclosed bay with a narrow entrance, high tide was due in the hour so the beach was short, and congested with launch trailers as it seems there were lots of divers out today.

In contrast to the sea state on Friday when we had arrived, it was flat calm, and with a cloudless sky, promised to be a cracking day.

Dad raring to go.

The water was perfectly clear here.

We got everyone on the water, and today we managed 23 kayaks! the plan, much like yesterday was to take everyone out for a trip and then back for lunch, and then the longer boats carry on up to Porth Dafarch, a trip of abot 8 miles.

We went out around the island of Ynysoedd Gwylanod, the farther of the two isles has rhoscolyn beacon on it and had a steady tide race running between the two.

The begginers and guys in the shorter boats did really well around here, the currents were strong, and there was a fair bit of chop especially on the seaward side.

We gathered the group together and set off towards the clifs to try and have a look in a cave, the swell was picking up abit now, and meant that it was difficult to get near in. So we paddled around back to the bay and to the beach for a lunch stop.